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Show FIFTEEN MINERS KILLEDIN SLIDE AVALANCHE SWEEPS DOWN ON BUILDING, 8MOTHERING AND CRUSHING MEN. Men Were Sleeping When Monster 8nowslide Strikes Building, Carrying Occupants Down Mountainside. llailey. Idaho- Fifteen men dead, fifteen others missing, Is the result of nn avalanche which swept down thp mountain und destroyed the mine liutikliouse, compressor and supply house of the Federal Mining fi Smelter Smel-ter OOBIpMJt at the North Star mine on February 2fi. Forty five men were sleeping In the bunkhousp when a monster snowsllde without the slightest warning struck the building, trapping the men' and carrying them down the mountain, thrown from their beds and battered against the walls of tlie tumbling building. The compressor end the supply house were hit first and the bunk-house bunk-house piled on top of them. The bunkhouse was a two story building, about .'10x60 feet, and when rescuing crews arrived only a small part of one corner was visible. NewB of t tie tragedy was at once communicated to Halley, and every tv.iiiah'e nian was rushed to the as list, -ime of the imprisoned men, fifteen fif-teen of whom were dug out of tho bunkhouse with only slight scratches. The bodies of the fifteen dead were also recovered here. The slide carried the bunkhouse ofl the lower floor, leaving the floor In Its original position, the building being be-ing crushed to pieces. |